The long road …

Well its been a hard few months and we are seeing the light at the end of the tunnel.  Thank goodness.

I have loved every minute (well almost) of living here in Nova Scotia, the people that we have met (well almost) have been incredible.  They are so friendly and down to earth and good.   No, I don’t have blinders on, there are some not so good people here too, but I don’t dwell on bad, I move forward with good.  So back to the journey, its been a long hard winter.  Weather wise of course, we all know that it was a hard winter for Canada, but for us here, in a new house with new ways of doing things it was especially hard and yes I”m sticking to that.  It was Cold, damn cold and now i’m done with talking about the cold.

So lets talk about good things.  Good thing number 1, we are currently dotting the i’s and crossing our t’s this week for our final inspections.  We are so close to opening.  We are so excited.  We keep getting phone calls and emails from people wanting to reserve rooms and unfortunately I need to keep telling them that we aren’t opened yet.  But that’s soon to change.  Hopefully by the end of next week.

Good thing number 2, the rooms are done!!!  This blog is going to show you a sneak peak of our new place…  Just a few rooms to give you a taste of what we have done.  You’ll have to see the rest of the pictures on the website.   Now don’t get all huffy, we want to have a little bit of mystery until our grand opening.  But I’ll show you some pictures that you haven’t seen yet, so don’t complain.

We are diligently working with the weather here this week to get the landscaping done.  There are lots of plants and flowers in the garden but like most everything else here in this old home, the upkeep wasn’t done and we have a lot of overgrowth and weeds and such.  But the good news is we are working on that now.  And we have a very good friend of ours doing that with us, so lol, I don’t pull out flowers thinking they are weeds and leaving weeds thinking that they are plants.  I’m not so hopeless in the garden anymore but everything is different out here.  LMAO

The first transition we have done, okay not really a transition, we changed the carpets and the furniture but kept the color.  But its ours now, so its a transition for us..

Yes the colours are the same, its the difference between a professional photographers equipment and my really good, but not that good equipment.  Did you notice the stairs, we painted them brown and white, which we think makes them POP!!!  I’m loving the hallway…  a few more pictures maybe, who knows, but for now its awesome!  Oh and that chandelier is temporary.  I brought one home from my mom’s and once I refinish it, it will look grand in the foyer.

That desk you see there at the front door, is called a Cratchit desk.  I was told they call them that because it is like the desk that Bob Cratchit used in A Christmas Carol.  Anyway, whatever the reason we loved the desk and bought it at an auction.  And you know how much I love auctions.  That Hall Tree and the deacon’s bench are also from an auction.  I wanted something different from what I was used to so we got those for an amazing price at an auction so now its here.  The rest of the furniture, pictures and decorations in the room was brought from my house in Holland Landing, we’ve been subconsciously planning this B&B for a long time.  The sideboard was the one I brought from my mom’s house.  Its absolutely gorgeous and fits in really nice here.  I’m glad its got a new forever home.  That red chair in the corner we bought that from our new friends Myrna and Blaise, here in Nova Scotia.  They have bears on their property and I can’t wait to go back and see one for real.  Right now I’ll settle for watching their videos.  LOL

 

      

And here is the Dining Room where our guests will be able to sit down and enjoy their fantastic breakfast, cooked to order, and of course cereal, coffee, tea and baked goods.

Five of the six tables were purchased here in Nova Scotia, we even have a Duncan Phyfe table.  The other round table I brought back from my mom’s house.  It was a beautiful oak table with great carvings on the side.  I couldn’t let it go to Goodwill, so now it has a new forever home like the sideboard.

Most of the tea sets and dishes in the room were also part of my mom’s collection.  She had a lot of dishes and what my sister didn’t take, I made sure to give it a new home so it stays in the family.  Who knows these may be heirlooms some day that my nieces and nephews will have.

Now the first bedroom… i”m only showing 1 shot..  more to come on the website, which I have to finish this week..  So this might be the last sneak peak (nah) before Monday.

We’ve named all our rooms after lighthouses.  We thought that was apropos.  There is Neils Harbour in Cape Breton which is north of us, then Peggy’s Point Lighthouse at Peggy’s cove, then Cape Forchu in Yarmouth and rounding out the forth room is Cape d’Or.  We have seen 3 of these lighthouses and they were fantastic, so they are part of our lighthouse tour in our home.  Cape Forchu is on the list for sometime this fall, after our season slows down (yeah yeah, once it starts)..

Here is the Peggy’s Point Room. (picture is crooked.. I know.. I’ve already fixed it.. )

 

And just incase you are wondering, the entire house, rooms and common areas and our spot is a Smoke-Free building.  And for those gentle reminders we’ve placed these in each room.

 

Well I really have to work on the website now and get these pictures there, then I have to go and get pics of all the other rooms, so I’ll be back soon with another post.

Ciao babies